HP P1000 won't print

[Champo41]

I've got a Compaq laptop, Pentium II 300mhz, 64MB RAM, 10 gig hard drive. I recently got an HP P1000 (photo printer) as my main printer for the laptop (since I do photography work and all).

The first few times of use, it kept on saying that it had lost connection, sometimes not even printing at all. I bought a new cable and that seemed to fix it. Now, it's gotten to the point where I have to shut down the system (after using it for a while) and print something when it comes back up. And only then will it print, sometimes it will cut it off, saying it lost the connection to the printer.

My first guess was RAM. I know you need plenty of RAM for photo printers, but I've seen people with 256MB of RAM having the same problems with these photo printers (not just HP). The cable is a gold connection.

Could it possibly be the printer itself? Thanks for any help that you give.

 

[AC]

What OS? Win9x/me?

how long is your cable?

signal is on the weak side...

you know that you could refresh the printer port, so that you don't have to restart to get windows to see it again...

 

[lo6ic]

make sure that the 'hp printing extras' or whatever they're called are shut down. it could be that the program that comes with the printer is draining resources. *shrugs*

 

[SemperFi]

I have the P1100 and had the same problems with win 2000. I used the HP tech support forum and finally told me to reinstall windows. Well I ended up doing that and still occasionally still get get that error. What seems to work for me is to power off the printer then unplug the cable out of the printer then plug it back in and power on. This has worked for me 3 or 4 times now since the reinstall of 2000 back in January.

I hope this helps.